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Do you host your own ML / AI / LLM? What do you use, and what do you use it for?

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[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Myself - I've self hosted LLMs before, but with only 4-8GB vram (depending which card is in place), I can't run the good stuff at acceptable enough speeds.

(Don't @ me - I know all the tricks with turbo quants, spec decoding, MoE etc. 192GB/s is 192GB/s)

I do use Handy (STT) which is amazing (my fingers are arthritic and typing hurts after a while).

My personal use case for LLM is quite simple - a trumped up super google and / or self reflection / journalling / sound board. Despite being glib about it, that's actually very useful to me.

Work wise, I use the big winking orange asshole (Claude) when I have to. I have moral tension with with it, so am seriously looking at other options. I hear good things about GLM 5.2, but if I can't run Qwen 35B at any kind of decent speed, well....self hosted GLM is a pipe dream.